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adamsvanrhijn · 1 month

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i need people who do not understand swimming to not talk about swimming in the context of participation in sports because this is an extremely sweeping generalization and anyone who knows better and is on the other side of the argument is going to dismiss you as not knowing what you are talking about.

Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps are effectively the two most decorated swimmers in history if you look at women's vs men's events. I would agree that Michael Phelps has had more publicity because he is a man, but Katie Ledecky is a terrible example to use as a woman in swimming with a lack of sponsorships and promotion. Arguably the very worst example possible.

More importantly, if swimming at the international level was mixed and they were competing at the same time, Katie Ledecky would not kick Michael Phelps's ass, not because she is not a capable and talented swimmer, but because they generally do not swim the same events. Ledecky's records are in long distance freestyle. Phelps's are primarily in short distance butterfly.

Most importantly... when you compare events they have both swam, Phelps is faster. There are currently no swimming world records where the fastest time is held by a woman. The fastest men in swimming are generally multiple seconds faster than the fastest women, in a sport where competition is at hundredths of a second.

At other levels of swimming among adults, the actual competition usually is mixed, and times are tracked against sex and age group as well as by heat/event. There are plenty of women who swim faster than men — but excepting long distance swimming, currently there are none, literally zero, at the world record level (for Olympic events that I'm aware of). This is also true for most age group events.

This is literally one of the key sports that sparked what is a cultural debate that has a real impact on the inclusion of cisgender and transgender women, and transgender people in general, in sports. If your primary argument is that the fastest cisgender women can beat the fastest cisgender men in swimming, people whose opinions are motivated by transphobia are going to dismiss you, because you are wrong. People whose motivation includes anxiety around not seeing [cisgender] women on the podium at the top levels of the sport are also likely to dismiss you, because you are wrong and as such you do not "get it".

And if you yourself are only okay with the participation of transgender people in sports and mixed competition on the condition that cisgender women will beat cisgender men, that is maybe something you should think about. Because swimming is one of few sports that can be objectively quantified, and at the top levels of the sport, that is actually not frequently true. It is currently hypothetical. Certainly "cisgender women will never be faster than cisgender men in swimming", or "cisgender women are inherently incapable of being faster than cisgender men in swimming" is biological / gender essentialism; we don't know those things, there are plenty of things that line of thinking does not take into account, and cis women have been closing the gap to be as fast as cis men steadily for decades — that line of thinking does everyone, but cis women in particular, a disservice. But it is objectively true to say that the fastest cisgender women have not yet demonstrated faster times than the fastest cisgender men, and acting like it isn't is not going to convince people who disagree with you that your opinion is worth considering!

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schraubd · 8 months

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Media Alt-Centrists in Disarray

When I first saw this Tweet (Xeet?), my eye was drawn to "Dems should pursue working-class voters of all races." It's a great example of something that is simultaneously (a) alt-center conventional wisdom and (b) utterly inane. What are the sorts of policies Dems should pursue to working-class voters of all races? Answer: the ones they're already supporting! The difference between talking and delivering. pic.twitter.com/mb6bp65eKV — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 31, 2023 Price negotiations for prescription drugs is a great, obvious example of a policy that's geared to the interest of working-class voters of all races. Standing with the incipient wave of labor mobilization is another. The infrastructure bill was yet another. All of these are centerpiece items of the Democratic Party's economic agenda. But the alt-center punditry acts as if they don't exist. The "advice" on offer is "do what you're already doing, but make me pay attention to it." And one cannot help but think that the price the pundits have put on "make me pay attention to it" is "stop distracting me by also supporting policies that are distinctively to the benefit of specific historically marginalized communities." At the same time, there is a separate vapidity in the "advice" that Biden shouldn't run for reelection. Again, as advice this is just terrible: Biden has a proven electoral track record and has already beaten Trump once. There's no universe where a chaotic primary free-for-all would actually be healthy for the Democratic Party or the broader prospect of ensuring that Trump or any of his lackeys stay out of the White House. The desire for "a real primary" is just thinly-disguised thirst for the good old days of "Dems in disarray" and the chaotic intraparty knife fights that aren't happening on the GOP side because virtually all of Trump's "challengers" can't help but cozy up to him (with a not-so-subtle wink to the various factions within the Democratic Party whose definition of a "real primary" excludes any primary where their preferred candidate doesn't march to victory). Finally, "faculty lounge" politics is also a meaningless phrase. If it's meant to refer to the notion that Democratic party politics take their cues from whatever petition is currently being passed around the Wesleyan anthropology department email list, it's delusional. If it's meant to be a general referent to so-called "culture war" politics, then it's horribly outdated -- we are long past the days where the main "culture" wedge issues favored Republicans over Democrats. Republicans are getting absolutely blitzed on reproductive rights as their radical campaigns to imprison, maim, and murder women are predictably reviled. And their anti-LGBTQ agenda doesn't fare much better. Democrats have a lot of room to punish Republicans for their extremism here, and absolutely should. Biden should run for reelection, and in the process will no doubt trounce token primary opposition. He should promote his policies which will improve the lives of working class voters of all races, and he should absolutely torch Republicans for their unabashed extremism in desiring to take American "culture" back to the 19th century. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/zVgUnOJ

#abortion #class #Democrats #economy #Election 2024 #Joe Biden #reproductive rights

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hapan-in-exile · 2 months

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Volume 4 - Post#2: Gray Area

Another installment in this ongoing serialized fanfic

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Genre: Mandalorian x Fem! Reader

Total word count: 2.2K (second post in Volume 4)

Rating: Explicit - smut, language, +18 *NSFW*

A/N: Diving into "the heist" part of the story so I'm introducing more characters + plot complexity. Quick recap, ofc (Thuli) is undercover using an alias (Kasya) working the job Mando picked up back in Volume 1

Content warning - this post contains brief references to the ofc's past abusive relationships (no details but they are mentioned)

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II. “Dunno, love. I says he tryin tae be sweet tae ye.”

Your new coworker, Belen, is a very sympathetic listener. This job involves a lot of long hours working elbow to elbow together, cleaning with a crew of mostly women, so each day, the conversation inevitably turns toward the tawdry state of everybody’s love life.

Good sex, bad partners, stubborn children, pushy in-laws, irregular menstrual cycles, trashy holo-dramas, cautionary tales of sexually transmitted diseases—it made the work go faster.

With eight grown children and now on her third husband, Belen is considered the voice of wisdom around here, dealing with all matters of the heart.

Blessedly, you’re usually spared from having to participate due to the tragic nature of your cover story, which involves escaping from an abusive ex-lover. ‘Kasya Hawat’ had the misfortune of falling for a Spice runner who was violent and possessive, and now she had to lay low working on the cleaning crew at Tagge Corporation's coaxium refinery on Lakaran until he forgot all about her.

A solid alias should be built on a sturdy foundation of lived truths. As such, your made-up phantom ex is a composite of all the most toxic men you’ve ever dated. And oh, there had been a few. It’s the reason you can’t judge the Mandalorian for his attraction to cruel women. Your own track record is hardly flawless.

Which just begs the question, the nagging voice in the back of your mind taunted, what the fuck is he doing with you?

While he hadn't said as much, you get the impression that you may be the first and only woman the Mandalorian has ever loved. In the weeks apart, this should have been a source of comfort to you. Instead, the realization made you uneasy. Could his tenderness really endure? Or would he come to resent the ties that bind you to someone who shared their heart rather than burying it?

You weren’t exaggerating when you warned him you don’t always navigate 'couples shit' in a healthy way. That’s the legacy of these past relationships—the insecurity, the doubt, and paranoia that can eat away at your peace if you let it. There was the narcissistic fleet captain who was a mean drunk, a spectacularly manipulative intelligence officer who constantly lied to you, and one of Ingtar’s enforcers who may have been an actual sociopath.

Gods, that was such a nightmare! The first thing you promised yourself after starting your new job as a mob doctor for the Black Sun syndicate was that you would not, under any circumstances, get romantically entangled with your new colleagues. ‘Do not shit where you eat’ being the wisest adage since time immemorial.

But he was so good-looking and very keen to thank you for saving his life, and you have the worst habit of learning everything the hard way and terrible impulse control…It had ended with Ingtar breaking his leg under threat of death if he ever spoke to you again.

Most women didn’t have a towering gang boss to save them from an abusive ex, so it’s not difficult to imagine the desperation of fleeing to this abandoned sector of the galaxy if Ingtar hadn’t been there to protect you from the obsessive, unwanted attention. So, in the end, it wasn’t that much of a stretch to build your alias.

Mercifully, a mixture of earnest compassion and, in some cases, the worst kind of judgmental pity compelled your fellow coworkers to give you space and not press you for conversation about it.

And thank Erenada for that! It’s a good cover for being quiet and withdrawn. The less you open your mouth, the less likely you are to get caught in a lie.

To be fair, despite your initial fears, it hadn’t been too disorienting to slip into the role of 'Kasya Hawat'. Nito was right, the repetition of constantly hearing her name directed at you over and over again was enough to make your brain accept it in the same way you might grow accustomed to a nickname. Someone said, Hey Kasya!, and your body knew that means me.

“Then why the hell won’t he just fuck me in his own godsdamned bed, Belen? I can assure you, there’s nothing sweet about getting railed in a supply closet.” Humia let out a pathetic sigh.

She really is too good at this.

Your partner in espionage has taken the exact opposite approach to infiltration. Humia wanted to be noticed. She made friends with everyone and was seemingly everywhere all at once. The public hall, the bathhouse, the bars and cantinas, and when she could convince someone to break company policy about unauthorized personnel—the Tagge Corp dormitories.

Sleeping with TaggeCo employees is how Humia gathered most of her intel.

She slept with so many of them it wasn’t suspicious when she took an interest in someone new. And the Tagge Corp facilities were exponentially more appealing than your scrap metal hut, so it made perfect sense why she’d want to fuck them on company property.

And because she was dismissed as some opportunistic slut looking for favors, who they were all just passing around—not the greatest security threat they faced—Humia knew virtually everything that happened around the Lakaran coaxium processing plant.

“I wish I could be as efficient,” you’d told her a few days ago with sincere admiration. “But I’m terrible at pretending to like someone when I don’t.”

“Yeah, you are,” she huffed in agreement.

Humia had recently brought home one of the TaggeCo security guards back to the hut you shared with a few more of Ubaa Dir’s spies, and you’d glared daggers at that asshole until he took off his shoes. The wood floors might not be polished, but he damn well better respect your house rules.

“You don’t have to like someone to fuck them, Kasya.”

Well, except that you do. Not because of some righteous moral high ground! You spent years on the front lines where people took gratification where they could, who found sex a zesty, life-affirming enterprise that was only as complicated as you chose to make it.

That was all true. Except that you needed something, a spark that ignited attraction. A mutual interest, a shared joke, or a moment of vulnerability. Something.

There’s nothing quite like horniness to give you a surge of self-confidence.

Of course, your intuition isn’t infallible. Hence, the attraction to your toxic exes. It’s just that without a spark, your body could not perform intimacy. In place of confidence, there was fear and apprehension. You physically recoiled or froze in hesitation. Kissing that noxious Duke only worked because you’d been aroused by vengeance rather than passion.

Hmmm, maybe that’s exactly how Humia made it work?

“I mean, touché,” you rolled your eyes at her. “But you’re not just fucking them, are you? You’re drawing out their secrets. And while I’m sure you are an absolutely fantastic lay, I’d argue that’s the greater talent.”

“It’s not always about what they tell you,” Humia explained. Each time someone sneaks me inside the dormitories, I learn how they sneak out. Plus, I rifle through their papers, that sort of thing. The trouble with intrigue is that you don’t always know what’s significant until it is.”

“How do you keep track of it all?”

“That, my dear,” she smiled triumphantly. “Is my real talent.”

A flash of motion pulls you back to the present, and you set aside the calibration wand you’d been wiping down absentmindedly.

“What about you, Kasya?” One of your other roommates, Serenio, signs. Her peachy-pink eyebrows arched teasingly. “Anyone caught your eye?”

You’ve always been better at recognizing languages than communicating, but you’re working hard to pick up more Twi’lek signs, and Serenio is a good teacher.

That said, you don’t exactly know the correct signs for it’s complicated, or I’m already sleeping with one stubborn man, and while I’m not sure we’re monogamous, I don’t have the energy to juggle another.

Shit, now that’s all you can think about, the feel of his lips on your skin, the way his strong hands grip your waist, his thumb pressing into the crease of your hip, the slide of his tongue over your…

Gods, it had been so good!

Finding a spark with the Mandalorian had not been an issue. Hell, there’s not a single part of your body that did not physically respond to the mere memory of him. Fuck if you’re not so turned on right now just thinking about his tongue that you have to shift your weight to ease the ache between your thighs.

“Work is hard,” you answer, shaking your head. “Too tired.”

“If’n ye needs so…” Belen cocks her head mischievously. “Johar wad bung yer knees t’ower.”

Your esteemed elder laughs, cackling with delight at her own vulgarity. Pretty sure she just suggested Johar Kessen would be keen to bury his face between your thighs.

You blanche. Johar Kessen, a mercenary working for House Tagge. While he is handsome, in a foxy older gentleman kind of way—hunting down assassins certainly helps him stay in shape—his interest in you is confusing to the point of being oddly suspicious.

“Askit me bout’cha,” Belen winks a crinkled eye at you before hunching back over her mop.

“Well,” you shrug. “I’m the new girl. I’m sure it’s nothing prurient.”

“Some men like a puzzle,” Humia smirks.

“What is that supposed to mean?”

Despite joking with Mando about creating a salacious backstory for 'Kasya', you’ve taken the most sensible course of action and made yourself very unremarkable. Though heartbreaking, your hair is now cut to your shoulders, dyed a sandy brown color, and always worn pulled back into an untidy knot. You look like a root vegetable in your work coveralls, with your breasts bound and wrapped into an amorphous lump. And as a rule, you avoid speaking to anyone who isn’t part of the cleaning crew.

Not that any of this protected you from the harassment that just came standard working in contracted service labor. Your job entails cleaning the laboratory facilities, so you don’t have it as bad as the crews working in the dormitories or executive housing. Thus far, there had only been one bizarre incident in which a lab technician whipped out his dick in front of you to urinate in the eye wash station.

But you're not exactly turning heads when you walk into a room the way Humia did. And no one is seeking out your company. Except for Johar Kessen, apparently. Honestly, you have no idea how you managed to come onto his radar.

No. That’s a lie. You know damn well that you never would have crossed paths with Johar Kessen if you had stayed away from the card games in the public hall. You don’t go out drinking or dancing with your roommates. Everyone else seemed to enjoy the bath house, but you’d had your fill of communal bathing back in the military. The only time you didn’t spend on the job or in your hut was playing Sabacc.

Okay, so maybe Mando’s got a point. You miiight have a gambling problem.

When Kessen came to play cards, the man always sat at your table. Not because of you—probably—but because you cut in with the serious sharps. The kind of folks who played through the dark hours of the morning.

In no way have you encouraged his flirtations, and most of the time, he doesn’t even speak to you directly. But he is a charming man with a good sense of humor who had a habit of looking at you from out of the corner of his eye whenever he told a joke to see if you were laughing.

“Telt him tae be soft tae ye,” Belen raises a knobbly finger. “Soft heart,” she presses her arthritic hands over her chest. “Hard cock,” and she thrust out her hips in an absurd pantomime.

Your eyebrows ascend so rapidly that they are in danger of disappearing into your scalp. Maybe this woman shouldn’t be doling out sex advice?

Doubling over with laughter, along with all the other cleaning staff, tears stream down your face until your supervisor stomps over to comment about your productivity. “Do I have to separate you ladies like schoolchildren?”

Gods, it felt good to laugh like this.

And that’s why morality is really fucking complicated. You could never work for Tagge Corp to feed yourself. Every meal you bought with this blood money would turn to ash in your mouth. But you were free to make that choice for yourself. You didn’t have three grandkids at home who would starve for the sake of your pride.

Plus, Belen isn’t technically a TaggeCo employee despite cleaning their floors for nearly a decade after her husband, a miner at the coaxium deposit that fed this refinery, was paralyzed from the waist down after falling off a ladder. What would happen to Belen and her family when there was no more refinery?

Although that would be a moot point if the Tagge family decided to implode the facility from orbit with you all inside, rather than surrender.

There was a time when you would have cheered on the New Republic busting this place for poisoning Lakaran and its people, sentencing everyone from Tagge Corp, confident they were all monsters who deserved their long prison terms. Now you know better.

Coaxium is what made interstellar travel possible. The New Republic had no intention of doing anything that disrupted the supply of coaxium-refined hypermatter.

Oh, sure, they would file complaints about rights violations and environmental degradation. They would bemoan the poverty that compelled locals like Belen to clean and feed and clothe the bastards who were slowly killing them. But that would be the extent of it.

Ubaa Dir and her revolutionaries were the only ones prepared to fight. They had fought the Empire when they processed the coaxium on Lakaran, and now they would take down the Tagge Corporation.

And they had hired the Mandalorian to help them liberate the processing plant.

You had to believe that what came after would be better. That they would save Belen and every other soul living on this godsforsaken compound.

Because if you failed? If Tagge Corp opted to self-destruct—?

Well, that’s why you spent all day talking about stupid shit, like whether Johhar Kessen could still get it or if Humia was at risk of developing a UTI from having sex in the public baths.

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autumndasher · 5 months

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I really need just get this out of my system because I haven’t been able stop thinking about it for ages.

A lot of people really like to lie about Steven Moffat’s work in order to paint him as “the worst Writer/Showrunner Ever!” I’ve seen people lie about his work on Doctor Who, Sherlock, Jekyll, probably more if I bothered to look further (the Jekyll thing pointed out in a video because I do not care for that show) and people just don’t care because they don’t care to fact check, weren’t actually watching in the first place and were just looking for more reasons to hate his work, or were LIED TO.

It reminds me of the current hate boner people have for the MCU. Things are slightly different now and, after getting a big epic cross-over finale, it’s popular to hate the popular thing despite the quality and problems being the same, it’s just for the MCU more non-white characters and Women we’re getting the focus and for Doctor Who it became popular in America. And I don’t think ‘The End of Time’ helped all that much considering it portrayed the passing of the torch as a new era Replacing the old.

So you’ve got people who hate Moffat Era Doctor Who (because that’s what he’s most known for) because he Replaced RTD, it was popular on Tumblr, Series 7b was bad and Peter Capaldi was old (seriously, people stopped watching because they didn’t like that The Doctor wasn’t young anymore) and video Essayist bank off that known hate to criticise his era. They often focus on the first half of his era (2010-2013) but rarely acknowledge the improvements he made in his second half (2014-2017), they bring up Irene Adler but not Molly Hooper, they Bring up Canton Everett Delaware III but not Bill Potts, they bring up how serialised the 11th Doctor Era was but not how the 12th Doctor Era went back to Season Long Arcs like RTD had.

Don’t get me Wrong, Moffat is hardly perfect but he had a similar track-record with Doctor Who as RTD. Moffat had ‘Kill the Moon’ and Davies had ‘The End of the World’ but people act like the man who wrote some of the best and most beloved episodes of Doctor Who was terrible because he *checks notes* dedicated a minute of other writes episodes to his over-arcing plot. So no, 12 changed tremendously throughout his era, the 12th Doctor from Series 8 could never do or say anything that the 12th Doctor did in ‘The Doctor Falls,’ Sherlock explained how he survived at the end of the Series 3 premiere and you can see him roll his eyes and leave the room when Anderson has his back turned while poking holes in his explanation and it is within his creative rights to depict The Doctor as a character who has done so much and helped so many that he is known through-out time and space, especially if he has a story to tell that’s based around that idea.

#let it be known #that I have never seen Supernatural #and have stayed as far away as I can from SuperWhoLock #doctor who #bbc sherlock #steven moffat #moffat era #moffat hate #personal rant

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Dyana returning for s2 and possibly being involved in jaehaery's death and thus ultimately making it "aegon's fault" is kinda funny when otherwise the blame would've mostly been put at aemond's feet (daemon's hit on the children aside. and let's be for real, it's definitely going to be daemon's hit, and rhaenyra will look like a hapless bafoon). I never "blamed" aemond for b&c reading f&b, but it very much read as a situation of one thing leads to another. aegon's "involvement" now muddies the waters, which can be interesting, but considering aegon's track record on the show it just seems kinda overkill at this point.

I honestly think that a lot of the ground work of vilifying Aegon and creating the fiction that Aemond is a bad person - despite the fact that no one has ever came at me with a reason that Aemond is a bad person in Season 1. It is all in service of trying to justify "Blood and Cheese" and exonerating Rhaenyra from any blame.

Cause, on the surface, in Fire & Blood, there is actually no justification for the murder of the children. Luke was sent into dangerous territory for a dangerous mission, armed - You are always armed when you're riding a dragon. And he got caught up in a personal grudge and duel of which he is he 100 percent responsible for starting and fostering over near a lifetime of resentment.

The murder of Jaehaerys is supposed to be a monstrous act condoned by monstrous people who are unquestionably the villains of the entire dance. And if you still don't believe that, than all you have to do is look at Viserys II basically putting a Taboo on his own parents names - barring his children and nieces and nephews from ever naming or recognizing Daemon and Rhaenyra as legitimate in any way. And why all of Daemon's children defied his legacy by marrying into his rivals families and continuing their lines.

GRRM has a ton of inconsistencies (Shoutout to @duxbelisarius Military Breakdown series) but he has always baked into the narrative that Rhaenyra was a monster and a villain - and is forever remembered that way by the ASoIaF Universal history, not because of sexist historians, but because of her own children who survived.

The main issue with the telling of this story is that it is being told in the 2020's, in which leftist political activism has become the orthodoxy and official opiate mainstream religion of Hollywood and London entertainment industries. Thus, because of inter-sectional feminism reaching cult like devotion in writers rooms and board rooms throughout mainstream entertainment, they cannot show a woman, a protagonist, becoming evil and acknowledging it as evil.

Don't get me wrong, they're still evil characters doing evil things, it's just that these corrupted and morally bankrupt people think that what they're writing is moral. That in their fucked up algebra "Tragedy" + "Justification" X "Girl Boss" = Morality.

Therefore, as long as they give every woman that has been wronged by Aegon and Aemond justification to avenge a tragedy by being proactive girl bosses, than anything that happens to Jaehaerys is morally right.

Thus, in our minds, what happens in "Blood & Cheese" is an unforgivable and purely evil act of savagery that everyone in Westeros for all time condemns as monstrous.

But to nut jobs like Sara Hess, Olivia Cooke, and Emma D'arcry (Or any "activist" in general) - who is only interested in their political and social agenda - Rhaenyra, Dyana, The White Worm, are villainized by sexist historians for being women of their age with power or agency and that they were justified in their evil acts because they are powerful women. In fact the idea that them being women, in general, is justification enough to do terrible things and see it as morally good, because, they were women.

It's the kind of sociopathic behavior rampant on this site with a bunch of weirdo window lickers cuing over "Let women do crime!" which is fine, but those same people also don't want those same women to face the consequences, to face condemnation, to face justice, for the evil they do.

So, to sum up, I disagree with your premise that Rhaenyra will be in the dark about "Blood & Cheese". What I think is that they're building up moral justifications through villainizing the male characters of Team Green of why Rhaenyra is justified in doing what she and Daemon plan to do.

#House of the Dragon #Aemond Targaryen #Aegon II Targaryen #Anti Rhaenyra Targaryen #Sara Hess

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🪴Thank you so much for still giving Peyton Riley love. You’re honestly the reason we even know of her, and we’re very tempted to let her appear in a lil DC story we’re tempted to write about a certain clay girl who should’ve stayed alive!

Annie from Growing Pains specifically, by Paul Dini and Robert Goodman. Just like we’d like Nora Fries to cameo, since she kept getting objectified and killed off unceremoniously by… Paul Dini again? Huh. But yeah! After all, Peyton was, *checks notes*, created and killed off by Paul Dini!? How many times do we need to fix your messes old man!?

First off, I'm so so sorry for how long it took me to get back to you! I'll see a message and then completely space responding to it...

I'm really glad you like her too, I love Peyton a Lot and she feels extremely neglected, only having cameos in the games and showing up like, once post-new 52, as yet another cameo. Paul Dini has a really fucked up track record, huh... It's disturbing how many women he makes up just to kill off. I suppose that could be said about a lot of comic writers in general, but still.

Nora was killed off in the comics?? I'm really bad at keeping up with this. Last I knew she was running around and freezing people so she could do cool ballerina stuff, but that was also... a while ago, probably. What a terrible pattern...

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lonelyridesinecto-one · 2 years

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A Miniature Spengler

Egon Spengler • She/Her Pronouns • ANGST/SFW/NSFW • Secret Relationship • HS Teacher!Reader • TW: Pregnancy / Birth / Pregnancy Complications • PART 3

“She can pop any minute”

“That’s the most terrible way in phrasing birth, Egon.” Ray watches his friend stress out as he loads Ecto-1 with their proton packs. “She’ll be okay. She’s not going to “pop” while we are on this job.”

“Okay but she has a track record of not telling me things and it stresses me out. The time she found out she was pregnant, she didn’t tell me that she passed out and went through that scary moment alone”

“This sounds like a time we were in PE…Y/N broke her wrist because we were playing aggressively with soccer and she covered it up when telling me she was going to our teacher. Then the next day she came in a cast”

“That is so not helpful” Egon sighs getting in the car with Ray to head on the job. “What happens if she goes into labor and gets stuck at home or I get hurt on this job and lose my memory or she falls and just actually po—-“

“Stop. I don’t need to imagine my best friend from high school popping like a grape. You guys have a village. If she goes into labor and you’re busy, she’ll call who’s available to come get her and she’ll call you to meet her at the hospital”

Egon stares at Ray when he said that and all he could think of was he should’ve stayed home that day.

He should’ve. But not for reasons you’re thinking.

“You called me on my day off, to help you up off the floor because you decided it was the best idea to sit on the floor that pregnant” Peter questions Y/N as she was literally going to kick him in the guys if she wasn’t going to get tired being helped up. “You’re lucky Dana understands and scowled me if I said no”

“Lucky me I guess” Y/N held her arms out for Peter as he carefully helps her up and waits for her to regain her balance.

“You okay now mama?”

“Yeah…Uhm. Yeah I think I am”

Peter stood there for a moment seeing her upset expression as he stepped out of the room walking the floor they were on until he found a phone. He picks up the phone dialing in a number before leaning against the wall patiently waiting.

“Hey gorgeous……yeah she’s okay, at least she’s telling me that…you read my mind. This is why we were destined to be together!…yeah I’ll come home when he gets back. Love you beautiful” Peter puts the phone down before rejoining Y/N in the baby’s room as she’s now in the rocking chair Egon built over five times to make sure it was secure. “Alright. You’re stuck with me until Spengs gets back”

“But I’m also Spengs”

“Don’t be a smartass with me. I’m not afraid of a pregnant woman” No he was. Y/N scared him that one time he thought it’d be smart to talk about how big she was and how she’d might have a c-section regardless. Including some scary realities that have happened to other women.

“You don’t have to stay Pete…I know he’s working and doing what he needs to do” The sadness to escape through her words didn’t go unnoticed. Resulting in Peter to kneel down in front of her watching her stare blankly at him. “What”

“Imma say something and I know if you don’t answer you’re upset about it”

“Okay…you sound like a therapist but I know you didn’t use your psychology degree for that line of work”

“Egon being whisked away because of the job, only stresses you out over the idea that he may not be present for your baby’s life” Peter states and Y/N immediately started crying.

“I WASNT THINKING THAT BUT NOW I AM VENKMAN—-I WANT HIM TO BE THERE FOR OUR BABY WHY THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY THAT”

“I’m sorry I thought that was what was wrong. I’m so confused. Why do you think I didn’t become a therapist?!”

“Pete…”

Woah. She hasn’t called him that in forever.

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“Pete…”

“Woah Woah Woah. You only call me Peter or Venkman. The fuck did I do?”

“Just. Uhm. It’s nothing like that” Y/N looked like she’s been crying and not because of the final they just had. “I need your advice or well. To talk me down…I-I know you’ve liked me and talking about my boyfriend wouldn’t be best to you but—“

“Hey hey. Yeah I did like you. But the second I found out you were taken. I didn’t bother pushing it…well after the first two times.” Peter admits. “But I’d like to be your friend and if I’m your last resort. Then you definitely need somebody…what’s wrong kid?”

“I’m…I’m worried that my boyfriend would break up with me when I take my certification classes..because I’ll be in a school and he’s doing an internship and I’m just. Would he leave me…if I’m not around enough? Like he’s dedicated to the career he’s achieving and so am I but I’m willing to take risks but—“

“Okay before you lose your breath. Let me just be honest. This guy caught a catch. He’d be a fool to lose you. If he loves you and wants to have a future with you. He’d make that obvious and by the looks of that necklace on yea. I think it is” Peter pointed out the necklace around her neck that had a silver E on it. “Damn. My friend’s name starts with an E and he’s super obsessed with his work. But also about this person in his life and it gives me hope that he’ll make someone very happy one day”

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“I’m afraid…He loves me, but babies are stressful and it’s only going to be scary”

“If he didn’t want a baby, he would’ve said something way sooner and if it makes you feel better.” Peter stood to his feet holding both hands out. “I’m gonna show you something”

Being as careful as he was, Peter got Y/N to the firehouse safely and lead her to Egon’s locker admitting to her that he invades his locker for his snacks sometimes. But he was mainly showing her the inside on the locker door.

“Now this man has every ultrasound photo you got printed on the door. Including these Polaroids from when we helped get your nursery together. Like. This man is going to be dedicated to this mini ghostbuster. Oh! Don’t tell him I found this either” Peter closes the locker and lead Y/N to the lab taking his time as she held onto him on the way down. “Don’t worry. Nothing is brewing in here. He hasn’t done an experiment in a while”

“…why?”

“Because the man wants to go home. He doesn’t want to get contaminated by anything that would require a quarantine.” Peter says calmly as Y/N gripped his arm tightly. “Now the kicker to everything…” he helped her sit on one of the stools before going into the workbench to pull out a notepad flipping to the right page. “He wrote everything down. Everything he wants to do with his kid. Boy or girl. Because you two are crazy and want to be surprised. But he wants to spend every second with his kid”

Y/N took a hold of the notepad looking at everything listed as she started to sob again. But instead of Peter comforting, the two were spotted by Egon and Ray coming down to the containment unit.

“Peter. What the fuck did you do”

“For once, nothing bad.” Peter walks away from Y/N as she was still fixated on what she was reading.

Peter took the trap from Egon and grabbed Ray by the collar pulling him to the containment unit to give them a bit of privacy. Egon carefully brought himself behind Y/N wrapping his arms protectively around her seeing what she’s reading.

“I-I…Peter found that?”

“Are you…ashamed?” He hated that frown on her sweet face as he immediately shook his head.

“I just…I wanna be a good dad, Y/N. I’m afraid I’ll mess it up”

“Love…but that’s the process. Messing up a bit along the way. We could only prevent so much. We’re learning too”

“As long as I’m with you, I’ll be okay…right?” Egon brought his arms back around his wife when she suddenly winced at the contact. “I’m sorry—“

“No it’s okay…I Uhm. I think we’ll find out soon”

The words blew past Egon before the shocked silent expression went into overdrive.

“RAYMOND—-!”

The yell caused everyone in the firehouse to get to work. With helping Y/N into Ecto-1, not her choice just the first available vehicle, as Egon tried not to over think about the fact that everything they need is back home.

“Alright alright. Ray, Egon, get the little lady to the hospital. I’ll grab your hospital bag. No discussion just go!” Peter states and it happened.

But not without complications…

“E-Egon, something doesn’t feel right…” Y/N started to sob out of fear instead of joy as Egon wasn’t letting go of her whether that be her attention, gaze, or just her being.

“Ray, I don’t care. I’ll pay for the ticket—-“

“I’m already putting sirens on” Ray yells over the sirens hurrying to the hospital as Y/N winces sharply making Egon not give a second thought when examining his wife and not lifting his hand for Y/N to notice the blood that pooled beneath her.

“GURNEY!” Ray yells running into the hospital after illegally parking Ecto-1 in the ER loading zone.

Egon without saying anymore words because his anxiety and anger would get the best of him immediately. He picked up Y/N bridal style using the adrenaline strength carry his very pregnant wife into the ER in his uniform catching a lot of glances but Ray made sure no one got near them except for the nurses and doctors that were paged.

Once Y/N was on the gurney and held onto Egon’s hand for dear life only to be separated which left them both screaming for the other. One of the security guards tried to keep Egon away since a nurse failed to do such that Ray had to cut in before his best friend got into a fight with the officer for separating them.

“They’ve got her. They’ve got them” Ray reassures, seeing the blood on his hands as he carefully directed him to a non-afraid nurse to help him get cleaned up.

When Y/N woke up after being brought in for an emergency c-section, she was met with Ray’s tearful expression of relief to know she was okay. But the monitor only went off to express her anxiety of realizing she’s not pregnant anymore and no one is telling her where her baby is.

Then the soft cries cut through Ray’s reassurance moment as he moved away from Y/N’s bedside to let the new father who hasn’t stopped sobbing since the nurses showed him their son. Y/N started crying as Egon carefully hands off the little one who instantly started to calm down once reconnected with his mother. She quickly looked up at him with disbelief as Egon started to cry even more.

“Egie…”

“I’m sorry…I-I almost lost you and I…I’m so glad I didn’t” He cries pressing his forehead gently against hers as she re-positioned herself to hold their baby close and give her a free hand to wipe away his tears. “You’re here…a-and he’s here”

“Our baby boy…” Y/N continues to sob herself as she kisses her husband before the two turned to look at their baby admiring the first moments. Together…

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“Dr. Egon Spengler?” The Doctor enters the waiting room finding Egon shooting out of his seat. “Would you come with me please?”

Egon nods about to when he quickly turned to Ray thinking he’d want to tag along.

“I’ll wait to inform Peter man. Go ahead”

Following the doctor, he immediately thought the worse. His wife died on the table. He lost the baby. Lost them both. As if he wasn’t already crying when they took Y/N away and didn’t let him come, he quickly wiped away his tears to avoid being seen by the doctor. When this isn’t his first rodeo.

“Your wife is still being operated on, they located the bleeder and are doing the repair. If you two ever decide to have another, your OB should know about placenta accreta as it was detected to be the cause of the bleed.” He informs only making Egon more anxious but the word “another” lingered in his head as the doctor opens the door for him to the empty hospital room Y/N will be placed in once she’s out of surgery. But instead of being met with nothing, there was a nurse along with a bassinet making sure the little one was still content given he hasn’t been held by either of his parents yet.

“Congratulations Dr. Spengler. It’s a beautiful healthy baby boy. Five pounds eight ounces”

“We’ll leave you two alone and come in with updates” The Doctor informs exiting the room with the nurse leaving Egon alone with the baby as he felt like he was going to collapse.

“You look so much like your mama…She’s going to adore you…” Egon whispers softly as he carefully picks up the little baby hearing his soft coos making him instantly adjust to keep him close to his chest. “I’ve got you. I’m not going anywhere…I’m right here”

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In the middle of the night, Egon woke up to the side of the bed being empty making him start to worry that Y/N was in pain somewhere. Three weeks into having a newborn and his wife still recovering from surgery, drove him nuts when there wasn’t a sound in their home and an empty spot right beside him.

Quietly but quickly searching their place to find Y/N in the rocking chair in the nursery. Their little boy sleeping comfortably in his crib as she watches him from where she sat. Egon slowly approaching and making sure she knew so she wouldn’t freak and wake the baby.

“Are you okay?“

“Sorry…Couldn’t sleep. I never met such a quiet calm baby, I got worried something happened that I got up” Y/N sighs, leaning into Egon as he brought her close while he stood beside her.

“I freaked out my parents. I was a quiet baby”

“Mm. Reassuring, at least nothings wrong” She sighs resting her head into his side both watching the sleeping baby. “If Peter calls him Charlie I’m killing him”

“Yknow it’s gonna happen from him before his future classmates right?”

“Don’t think too ahead! Charles will forever be my little baby” Y/N smiles up at Egon as he took the opportunity to kiss her, shortly after their son started to stir a bit. No loud cries erupted but soft discomfort ones.

Egon carefully pulls himself away from Y/N to walk over to the crib gently scooping him up. “You’re very lucky both of us were here”

“He’s absolutely perfect” Y/N joins Egon at his side looking at the little baby. “But since you picked him up…you’ll change him” she quickly ran off to let Egon “suffer” as he hopes she went to bed if she’s not doing it this time around.

A few more weeks went by, enough for Charles to have his first wellness exam and Egon of course to hover the entire time that was happening. He took that day as an opportunity to finally be more open to taking his son out into the world even if the first time he did such, Y/N wasn’t informed.

“RAYMOND”

Ray suddenly hits his head under Ecto before pushing out to find an angry Y/N glaring into his soul.

“What did I do?”

“Where’s. Egon.”

“Egon’s here? I swear I’m the only one here today…” Ray slowly sat up only for Y/N to grab his shirt pulling him to his feet and shaking him. “Y/N I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE EGON IS”

“HE HAS MY BABY—-I KNOW VIGO ISNT AROUND SO HE FUCKING DOESNT. BUT ONLY EGON WOULD DO SHIT WITHOUT TELLING ME FIRST”

“STOP SHAKING ME FOR AN ANSWER WHEN I HAVE NO IDEA!”

The two stopped yelling when crying was heard and without a second of thought, Y/N pushed Ray over and ran toward the lab.

“I swear the Spenglers are gonna be the death of me” Ray sighs laying on the floor for a moment.

“I’m sorry that was a loud noise…I’m so sorry” Egon apologizes for scaring his son stepping away from the containment unit as he now makes a mental note not to bring his son when he needs to do more extensive calculations for the unit.

“Spengler”

Egon froze in place holding Charles closer to him slowly turning around to his angry wife that had no idea he took his son to work with him.

“You’re lucky you’re holding him”

“…why?”

“Because I’m very tempted to s-smack you” Y/N suddenly started crying out of relief even if she knew that their son would be with his father. Her anger shifting to relief just turned it all into tears still feeling all kinds of feeling given everything.

“Come here, honey” Egon carefully places Charles into her embrace before bringing them both into his. “I’m sorry I should’ve told you”

“You should’ve!” Y/N gently caressing her son’s little cheeks as he snuggles into her embrace enjoying both of their warmth. “Taking my mini spengler away when I’d much rather have both of you home”

“Your mini Spengler?” Egon chuckles softly, kissing the top of her head. “I swear he’s going to turn out—“

“If you say like me. That’s dead wrong. He’s going to be just as smart as his daddy and sneak off to do science experiments with his dad and uncles”

“Mmm. True…I’ll take that. But he’ll be patient and kind to everyone he meets like his mama” He smiles resting his head on top of hers. “And maybe a little crazy like her too”

“I hate you” Y/N says through laughter as Egon brought himself to look her in the eye smiling more than before.

“And I love you, Spengler”

#lonelyridesinecto one #ghostbusters #egon spengler #egon spengler x reader #I’m not dead I just write for a lot of fandoms lol

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sweetescapeartist · 1 year

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IS GOTEN REALLY A CASANOVA/WOMANIZER?

DB FANDOM: Goten is a ladies man in GT!

REALITY: He's a hopeless romantic who gets dumped quickly all the time.

First, where did this idea that Goten is a ladies man begin? It began when we see the cast after a 10 year time skip. Goten says he had a date planned, but Goku is making him attend the Tenkaichi Budokai instead. That's it. No indication or implication that Goten is a ladies man. Just that he had a date.

However, GT takes this scene, reduces Goten's character, and makes dating girls his only notable quality. And even then, GT Goten isn't good with the ladies.

In DBGT EP 2, Pan says that Goten's new girlfriend will dump him soon.

This implies a pattern. There's initial attraction, but no prolongued interest, then Goten gets dumped quickly. Rinse & repeat. Goten can get 'em easily, but he can't keep 'em.

Many fans have taken certain scenes out of context or may have simply forgot. Or maybe they just watched the DUB that changed a bunch of lines. I don't know. It didn't watch that episode of the DUB because the English DUB was terrible. Anyway...

Goten is a hopeless romantic, not a ladies man/womanizer since he can't maintain a relationship for a long time.

(Full context of the scene)

The girls see him "Sure, I'll date you."

Soon after "We're breaking up."

Valese is the only one we've seen that seems like she might actually stick with him. Although, even in the show, they haven't even dated long. Knowing Goten's track record, the relationship might not last for much longer before she breaks up with him. But, Valese is a sheltered rich airhead, so a girl like her will probably stay with him because she understands so little about the world & Goten can connect better with someone like her. She reminds me of Krillin's ex girlfriend from DBZ filler that he dumped; Malon. (I know most say "Maron." I just spell it differently.) That's the kind of woman who behaves like a ditzy airhead because there's been no reason for her to behave maturely. But for Valese, its the result of being extremely sheltered. She's better than Malon imo.

Why do all of Goten's girlfriends soon dump him? Who knows? Maybe he still behaves like a child and doesn't take the relationship seriously enough? Maybe he goes after the wrong women and has bad dating practices? Maybe it's for other reasons. We don't see enough of Goten in GT to know why he always gets dumped. We just know he gets dumped often & we can only wonder why.

Also, Pan... You ARE a child. Enjoy being a kid, because being grown and paying bills is no fun.

*Looks at Grandma Pan.*

#Goten #Son Goten #DBGT #Dragon Ball GT #DB #DBZ #DBS #Dragon Ball #Dragon Ball Z #Dragon Ball Super #ladies man? no. he is a helpless romantic searching for a girl that wont dump him #and Valese might just be the one

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gideonsuggestions · 2 months

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what are the requirements and how does one get into the network?

I'll copy-paste my usual MO for you. I'm not really picky.

Physical Preference:

Female (identifying)

Between 5'3-5'9. anything below is too short and anything above is too tall

Short hair, above shoulders but longer than a buzzcut. no preference for texture or color (NO gingers)

Unique sense of style that meshes well with mine (no forbidden colors such as orange, yellow, or green)

Also has to be okay with our uniforms. I pick them out myself (please be noted that the word "pimp" is banned in my presence. I am not a pimp).

Cannot be naturally ginger. dyed is ok.

No particular preference in lieu of body type but I do tend to attract curvy women with my animal magnetism. Make of that what you will.

between the ages of 18 and 27. Has to be a legal adult, no compromise on this.

Personal/Professional:

None of those bubbly, cutesy fan girls. They do terrible work and need constant attention. YUCK! Go act like a child around Scott Pilgrim, not me. He might actually enjoy that. I have a job.

Well-read is always a plus but don't expect me to care about the books or subjects you like. I don't.

It's fine if you're religious as long as you don't bring it up around me.

High school diploma or higher (but what would you be doing here with a PhD? Go talk to a mad scientist, you're not doing rocket science here).

Will not attempt to "fix me" or "improve me". You're a villainous assistant, not a youth pastor (this should be a given; this job is not for the faint of heart).

Conversational skills. You will be attending high-profile events and speaking to many high-profile people. This is not a job for shy or socially awkward people.

Basic knowledge of computers, schedule-keeping, event organization, etc.

Basic fighting skills (absolutely necessary. A background in combat sports will prove advantageous in your career at GGG Heavy)

And, most importantly: having a positive track record. I will not hire anyone who has less than 2 years of experience with the same villain, I'm not into flighty girls who hop from one job to another. If I get you, I'm keeping you. I've never had a part-timer quit on me until my last assistant and the only reason she got away is because she went back to full-time with her old villain, who's basically untouchable. Stupid bastard was so overpowered he had to be physically dragged down to hell via divine intervention. But on the bright side, she's had 12 years with him- that's the kind of experience I look for in someone. I don't care for being abandoned.

Then I simply submit this to the network, and they send someone back. I have multiple part-time assistants at any given time. See! Not so bad. :)

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steadymongerbatscissors · 9 months

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The Prowers:A Big Problem (Except Tails)

Now as you can read from the title the Prowers are a big problem in the Archie Sonic Comic. Heck I’d probably put them on the level of someone like Rose Quartz from Steven Universe if I had to compare them to someone who was terrible family. So the objective of this post is to tell all the problems with them and to try to fix the situation. But I’m going to go by each family member.

Amadeus Prower

Now I’m going to go through each member of the family by how they fucked up and how badly they effected Tails. So yeah. Amadeus compared to his Wife,and Brother actually didn’t effect Tails at all. I don’t mean that in a good way. Like when I say that he didn’t effect Tails I mean he is basically an absentee parent. Like you’d think he got beamed back to Argentum by the time the Mecha Sally arc has him show up and try and give a pep talk to Tails. Which is good but the bad far outweighs the good this case.

Case in point the house of cards arc. Dear god does this suck balls. Anyway this arc is basically Amadeus making a coup happen instead of talking it out. (Which is how the arc is resolved in the end) I kid you not. Not even a year since he came back to Mobius and he’s already causing problems. So yeah not only does he cause more problems doing this but by doing this he heightens Tails emotional state to point he tries to fight Sonic. (Which like I’m game for Sonic & Tails having conflict it would be interesting but god is it stupid in Archie.)

So yeah not a great track record so far for the Prower family. But let’s not focus on him let’s focus on his wife instead cause boy is she a doozy.

Rosemary Prower

If you Amadeus was bad just wait until we start analyzing his wife cause boy does she cause problems. So first thing on the chopping block is that she was a part of that coup and was the one to basically write the words for Amadeus to say. The next thing is that she and Amadeus don’t actually try to get to know their son because remember they have been gone for years at this point. Hell Sally is more a mom to Tails than this women could ever hope to be.

The next major thing that has her in contempt is that she is a part of the council of acorn. Which if you read the comic you know why that is a bad thing. The council of acorn crimes are that they consistently try to stop the Freedom Fighter from trying to save them and the people of the Kingdom and give Naugus the throne because the people wanted it. Let me remind you that Naugus is a wanted criminal by the time he has his sanity again. Also the Kingdom knows he can control minds. So it’s a little suspicious that the people want him as King even though he has attempted to kill them all multiple times.

This all effects Tails actually to the point that he shows visible distress when he learns that his mom & the council is responsible for all of this.

(I know there is a image but I can’t find it for the life of me)

So yeah not a great mother by any means of the word but there is someone who is the worse member of the prowler family and it’s not even close. Yeah you all know him. The one,the only Merlin Prower!

Merlin Prower

Dear god you suck complete ass Merlin. But let’s just get started with the reason on why you suck complete ass.

First,off he’s a insanely powerful chaos wizard yet doesn’t fight back against Eggman and basically let him take over the world. He’s basically one of the reason so many people on Mobotropolis are now Orphans. Second,he doesn’t even train his nephew in preparation for the prophecy while having full knowledge he is gonna be a huge target for an ancient all powerful chaos wizard. Third,he seems to have no problem abandoning Tails despite possibly being his only family left. Fourth,he has no problem throwing him into dangerous situations where he could potentially die for “reasons”. Fifth, finally you disappear never to be seen again just to take over for the dead dinosaurs.

Like come on he is top ten worst family members in Archie Sonic history. Like say what you want about Tail’s parents but at least they had a excuse for why they disappeared and couldn’t be found. (Doesn’t excuse the fact they are terrible parents when they come back). He doesn’t even have an excuse. He literally appears and disappears. Even when he does appear all he does is bring problems to Tail’s front door.

But now we have gone over what each of their problems are. Let get into fixing them because boy do I have some ideas for them.

The Fixes

First things first lets talk about Tail’s parents. The thing I’m gonna do with them is kill them off when Eggman invades Mobotropolis. So yeah just like we only have to fix one fox. So yeah Merlin finds Tails in the Great Forest and tries to take care of him until the Ancient Walkers tell him he has to grow away from his family to become the chosen one. Merlin doesn’t fight this and abandons Tail on an island where he can grow up strong.

So just like we show where Merlin’s real allegiance lies. That being with the Ancient Walkers and the Ancient Walkers only. So yeah Tail’s grows up for like eight years by himself on the island until Robotnik shows up trying to harvest the island resources. But then Sonic shows up stopping Robotnik with Tails help. (Sorta creating a Sonic 2 recreation for the comic) However when it’s time for Sonic to go back to the Freedom Fighters he takes Tails with him because he realizes how dumb it is to leave a 8 year old by himself on an island.

So yeah Tails meets the Freedom Fighters. Sally raises him like her own son because she’s cool like that. Rotor teachs Tails all the basic things he needs to live like speaking,reading,and writing. But Tails gets his love for Tinkering from him. He actually takes to this stuff pretty quickly and doesn’t need a fruit to be smart. (God I hate that plot point) Sonic takes the role he usually does as Tail’s big brother.

The changes happen even more when Sonic gets his shoes being that Sonic just steals them instead of trading them with Merlin cause remember he has to stay away from Tails completely. The next change happens when Mogul breaks free form the emerald Tails seals him in. So yeah when Tails & Merlin first meet it isn’t great because nobody is cool with Merlin just abandoning Tails for “reasons”.

So yeah Sally hates him and Sonic isn’t gonna be buddy buddy with him. However Tails shows his maturity by just dealing with Merlin until they can get rid of Mogul. So yeah the whole thing with Mogul happens but we get another scene that isn’t in the original comic. Merlin saying goodbye to Tails permanently because he is gonna be a Neo Walker now. Tails maturity stops there though because he doesn’t understand why someone as powerful as Merlin is just cool with people like Mogul & Eggman running around.

Merlin then basically tells Tails that he is the bitch for the chaos force and he can’t interfere until deemed necessary. Of course Tails isn’t just cool with explanation and keeps probing until he gets to the million dollar question of why did he leave him on an island. This moment also reveals that Tails remembers everything from his birth but only in images. Merlin then gives the same answer he gave at the beginning of the conversation and then leaves the comic permanently.

We get a final scene between Sally and Tails with Tails talking about how he doesn’t feel anything but anger towards Merlin and wonders if that makes a bad person because he can’t understand Merlin’s duties. Sally then tells him no he’s not a bad person because of that and that Merlin is just a bad family member. They end the exchange between with hug and Sally reassuring Tails that she always gonna be on his side.

Conclusion

So to cover everything in my fixes I got rid of all the fluff that is Amadeus and Rosemary prower. I managed to make things a little closer to the games with the Sonic 2 adaptation. Showed off how much a prick Merlin really is. Had Tails have actual emotions towards the fact one of his family members is a bad person. Enhanced Sally and Tails mother & son relationship.

So yeah I think these changes benefited in the long run and made Tails have a actual reaction to that fact that he has terrible family.

Let me know what you think

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #sonic #archie sonic #sally acorn #merlin prower #mammoth mogul #amadeus prower #rosemary prower #so yeah long story short Merlin sucks #tails deserved to have emotions #rotor the walrus #long post

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bcacstuff · 2 years

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The abuse of every woman in his sphere started and has gotten to this level because of his indifference and inability to shut the perpetrators up. He never did it when his co-star was constantly attacked and bullied in his name and won't do it for any woman he may or may not be with. Quite often he instigated and approved the dissing of C while fully aware that would only embolden his followers, which it did. Fans are to blame for their own vicious behavior but S also bares responsibility because he never stepped in to stop them. One word from him would have gone a long way. Instead, he used fans and every woman close to him for self gratification and personal gain.

It's an interesting discussion and maybe even an important one. I try to see it from both sides, or perhaps even there are 3 sides involved. Put myself in their shoes, imagine their motivations and see the pro's and cons and potential consequences of their actions.

In no particular order:

The women involved You don't need an eyeglass to see which women he's interested in. About all of them expose them in a way that, mildly said make people think it is justified to call them all kind of names. Of course it isn't justified to do so, we're not living in the middle ages and there's no need to crucify them. But I have to admit, looking at the IGs made me often sigh and think, why do you think it is necessary to expose yourself in that way? I know, you can be proud of your body, and I know showing off your T&A (if you have them flaunt them) is gaining more attraction then when you're looking like a secretary with spectacles in a nice little suit with a skirt up to your knees. Sure.. but it's a 'certain' kind of attraction. No sweat, I don't mind some skin, but have to say, sometimes it's just a little too much.

Next to that, we are often lead to these ladies, either by a follow of him or people associated by him. Blame it on him... or... what about how we find our confirmation not because of a picture of them both but simply because the women are posting their whereabouts and leads us to find and connect the dots. A beach house in Hawaii, the restaurants and night clubs in Paris and then someone's getting papped. Yes, okay, should they not post? Well even then, in this last case no posts at all, and still...

In any case, it doesn't justify vicious behaviour in anyway from 'fans'.

I have to add to this chapter that C is of course in no way to put on the same level as the above described women in relation to S. She was attacked and bullied simply because she didn't go by the narrative that part of the fandom put on her. So that's another story than the above women. I wanted to make that clear.

Sam He's bares responsibility and he keeps making it a show which gives prominence and terrible optics. (I quoted both of you Anons, you put it down very eloquently).

There were tacky posts, the in bed with Eddie the cat and the pancakes in the kitchen of the house C lived in before, I can see how this has put people on a (wrong) track and instigated discussion that were not beneficial for his co-star but for him they were. Were they innocent, like he didn't think about it? Even though he shows he's not always sharpest knife in the drawer, he surely knew how this would lead to shenanigans.

The Hawaii show, ugly. All the way, his responsibility as well as that of GM posting daily records to us. It was very amusing to watch the whole show (gotta admit) but at the same time seeing how she got abused was horrible. Perhaps you can say this was one of the times he did speak up with his 4 page rant. And he did mention how people associated with him are affected and receiving dead threats. Though what was his motivation, not only the abuse but (and perhaps most) because he was in jeopardy himself, being called out about his covidiocy which he never addressed appropriately. So I would say, wrong timing and in that 4 page rant throwing everything in but the kitchen sink was not really standing up for others, or shut the perpetrators up. These are some examples, there are absolutely more. But I'm afraid that would make me write a whole book.

I also wanted to go into 'his indifference and inability to shut the perpetrators up'. Now I can see how you can go back and forth on it. When is it time to speak up, do you not give extra air to this when you're going to speak up about it. And if he speaks up, is he admitting at the same time his 'brief hookups' (and I put that between quotes because you can have numerous interpretations of what it is)? If he speaks up is it really going to shut those perpetrators up? I don't think it would shut people up, but I do think it shows the support of the people affected. Also in case of his co-star, you named it Anon, a number of times showing approval in a passive aggressive way. He never spoke up about the dissing of his co-star. I felt astonished a number of times how he retweeted persons (his fans) that obviously are the same that dish her and bully part of the fandom that do not praise him into heaven but have a more realistic view on him and question things from time to time.

The 'fans' It's one thing to discuss things here on Tumblr, and that includes me and my blog. You could accuse me from exposing these women that eventually leads people to their IG. Well, actually only this last one, and apart from that I posted some videos of his Paris trip with AM. It's not an excuse, but if I wouldn't have posted it, someone else would have. I wasn't even here during GM, and AM got named on another blog. At least I try to have a decent and open discussion on this blog and put things out here as they are. What we don't do is tagging them or him and nobody is forced to come here and read about it, including him and all the women involved.

However it's a whole other game to go to their IGs and leave horrible comments, have vicious discussions and even go into racism. I simply can't understand in anyway why people are doing this, how they can sleep at night and feel good about doing it. It's disgusting, and never justified to do so. Not in any way. Not even when you say the women involved and S have their responsibility too. That still doesn't justify these terrible actions. I can not see it in any other way. The consequences of these actions are that people are hurt, things only get worse and even can lead to something very unintended. If you haven't seen 'The most hated man on the internet' yet, go and see it. Then you know what I'm talking about.

End conclusion We all are part of this, we all have a responsibility in it, and we should all think about the consequences of our actions, we, them, and him.

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yeah I hated sansa’s season 5 plotline, but the reaction, ie. that it was bad not because it happened but because it happened to sansa specifically, that it would have been fine if it had happened to jeyne was…terrible. and honestly I found the book plot with jeyne just as awful and gratuitous as the show plot. i’m obviously not defending the sansa/Ramsey plot because it was gross as fuck, but there was a huge contrast in how the audience reacted to Sansa’s rape vs rape and sexual violence against dany, cersei, and the other women on game of thrones. in fact i literally saw a sansa stan say something like “y’all are mad the show killed of your white savior fave but you said nothing when sansa was raped” and I was thinking like what? Daenerys was literally raped in the first episode, why are you implying she was immune to the show’s misogyny. (also people are allowed to be mad about dany being murdered through intimate partner violence, holy shit)

I think "I love this character, specifically, more than I love other characters, therefore I don't want them to have a poorly done or hurtful storyline" is a more than reasonable stance. "It bothers me when a character I have strong affection for is the target of sexual violence" is, also, perfectly reasonable! Trust me, I understand! I have a terrible track record when it comes to this (Caroline Forbes, Black Sails' Max, Buffy Summers, Mellie Grant, Bela Talbot, Castiel, Priya and Tony in Dollhouse, the characters in Reign... I Get It).

I can even understand "I was less uncomfortable when it happened to secondary characters and I could brush it off". I think a statement like that deserves some deep self-reflection, and that if anything, it makes giving such a story to a lead character all the more poignant -in a show that at least pretends it wants to start a conversation about sexual violence, it'd be an easy cop-out to only limit that storyline to unnamed women or prop characters with little incidence on the narrative when the audience has proven perfectly capable of ignoring it while patting themselves in the back for, idek. Recognising it happened or not reacting in the worst possible way.

(sidenote: "authors should never write about rape" is never going to be a statement I can agree with. There are many reasons for this, but probably the most important one is a similar sentiment of some posts I reblogged semi-recently and now can't find in typical tumblr fashion, about how naïve, myopic and privileged is to want children's books to never include any of the dark realities of life, as if there aren't real, living children experiencing such in this very moment. Maybe, just maybe, not every story's existence has to revolve around. Maybe, just maybe, some people need different things from fiction than you do. It's everyone's prerogative to refuse to engage with such storylines! But their existence itself is a different matter.)

In shows like Game of Thrones or Reign, especially, there's something insidious in how people will use the "not for a lead!" argument (even putting aside how ridiculous it is in GOT, where the two other lead women were already rape victims). Namely, that the leads are high-born, and the secondary characters they argue should be the ones suffering those storylines are seen as "beneath" them in the social hierarchy.

It's impossible to deny this influenced audience's reactions, because there were people straight up arguing that Ramsay shouldn't have felt entitled to do that to Sansa, and not Jeyne, because she was highborn (???). Or that objected to Mary's rape in Reign because she was a ~queen. Look, of course certain privileges can help you avoid violence. Social class can be a shield, in particular. But it can become useless when you come face to face with a predator and he decides you're his next target. By that point, the title of lady means absolutely nothing.

Like you, I have no desire to defend the Sansa-Ramsey storyline (among other reasons, I never watched it and I tried not to pronounce definite judgements in storylines I don't have direct experience with). For what I know, D&D were practically eager to jump at the chance to put the actress on such scenes once she was old enough. And, to put it bluntly, I just don't give male creators writing about misogyny and violence against women the benefit of the doubt, not anymore. They have to prove themselves beyond doubt first.

But frankly? I don't give that benefit of the doubt to audiences either. I can't think of a single time that, at the moment a rape storyline occurred, didn't react in appalling, offensive ways. In a lot of fandoms that can evolve with time, or at least in recent years it seems people have grown more prudent about how they come across. But when it came to present-time reactions? Fans have an awful track record, IMO.

“y’all are mad the show killed of your white savior fave but you said nothing when sansa was raped”

This is fucking vile for the exact reasons you listed, jfc.

#anonymous #replies #talking to the void #rape mention cw #my thoughts #asoiaf thoughts #game of thrones #fandom nonsense #bitter lau tag

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Bridgerton siblings and their spouses ranked by intelligence. From the one who doesn’t have a single brain cell to the one with the most.

Well in one degree or another they're all dumbasses but on a scale of who has the braincell for the longest here we go.

1) Hyacinth: by far the smartest Bridgerton. I may not like her as a character in it's in his kiss. But her use of the one braincel is impeccable

2) Eloise: only ranks above Francesca because it took her less than a week to figure out she was inlove with Phillip. Compared to Francesca's track record. Eloise is a solid 8/10 smart

3) Francesca: smart enough to avoid scandal in London and keep her reputation spotless. She ranks under Hyacinth and Eloise because she took too long to figure out her feelings for Michael.

4) Daphne: she should rank higher, because the fake dating scheme was genius, but tricking a Simon into having a baby was a supremely stupid move.

5) Anthony: he's self aware enough to know he's an idiot at least and works to compensate this by marrying Kate . So compared to his brothers, Anthony is definitely the sharpest tool in the shed

6) Gregory: well intentioned fool, sharp enough to pick up social cues and underlying context in conversations. But an idiot when it comes to Hermione and Lucy actually make that women in general

7) Colin: rarely uses the braincell, he's happy being the foolish charming Bridgerton brother. Who didn't know his own feelings for 8 years. But he gets a point for being successful at figuring out his love interest secret identity and being the first to do so

8) Benedict : does not use the collective braincell at all. Biggest blind idiot of the family period. But we love him. (Still I'm pretty sure Sophie does all the logical thinking in his marriage )

As for the ranking of their spouses. Who are after all pretty smart to compensate we have of course

1) Sophie: honestly considering her circumstances. She wins as the smartest person in the room. If she hadn't met Benedict she'd still have found a way to escape Araminta and live a pretty neat life eventually

2) Penelope: why do I feel like I'm going in reverse order from the list above?. Penelope only ranks under Sophie because half of her problems could have been solved if she'd told her secret to Lady Danbury and let her pretend to be LW. Even the Cressida plot. In everything else she's pretty darn smart

3) Gareth: all things considered, Gareth is good plotting and if you notice unless Hyacinth interferes. He's pretty successful in his plans

4) Lucy: common sense thy name is Lucy. She's smarter than Kate was at that age. She's very Logical and her advice is always spot on. It's not her fault that people don't listen to her wisdom

5) Kate: only seems like a smart person. But in reality she's just as dumb as Anthony. People just don't notice because she's always hanging out with someone who looks less smart than her. Like her husband and her brother in laws

6) Simon: very smart fake dating idea terrible execution. He gets a point for all the maneuvering he did during the season and for having a moderately working common sense

7) Phillip: smart academically but only academically, he can manage an estate and make it profitable. Help cure children fever and probably has the best medical knowledge in the family. But in everything else he's a hot mess. Socially and emotionally Philip isn't smart he's just very very lucky that nobody has taken advantage of him yet. That's the headcanon

8) Michael: acts and looks smart but is actually a well meaning idiot. sorry Michael. But we don't shame him because at least he's better than Benedict in the one braincel department. I mean really he's not that stupid. He's just stupid in comparison to all his fellow in-laws Well meaning as he is. Also he ranks 8th because he's the only in law who ever hightailed out of the entire continent to escape his feelings. (Idiot.) Not the country, the continent!

And this has been the tea 🍵

#on a scale of 1 to 8 #bridgerton #anthony bridgerton #kate sharma #Benedict Bridgerton #sophie beckett #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #eloise bridgerton #phillip crane

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